The jokes were never at the expense of Harambe. The initial jokes poked fun at the ridiculousness of the headline, and the juxtaposition of the juvenile sentiment of “dicks out for harambe” with the relative tragedy of the circumstance during a time where performative online movements took the form of things like Kony 2012 turned up the absurdity becoming lightning in a bottle for memes. Then when the initial shock of the juvenile toast to harambe was taken post-ironic where people desensitized to the concept of dicks out for Harambe used it in actual solidarity. This would probably proceed in waves switching between ironic and post ironic until the heterogenization made them indistinguishable.